Essay on the Architecture of the Hindus c4.s3.18

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divided into thirteen parts; two are given to the abacus, one to the fillet, two to the *madana*,[\*] seven to the cimarecta, and one to the cimbia. The upper part of the shaft, about one and a half diameters below the capital, being divided into twenty-four parts, three are given to the collarino with its fillet, three to the ovolo, three to the lower collarino, five to the lower torus with its cimacia, and ten below to the strings of pearls (*muctadháma*).[\*] The projection of the capital is one diameter, or about an eighth part beyond that of the lowest part of the base; the fillets project the full, and the torus three-quarters of their respective heights.